An architect and Progressive Labour Party officer oversaw the renovation of the party’s headquarters at Alaska Hall on Court Street in Hamilton.

Charles Daniels, who headed the party’s Hamilton Parish branch, was also devoted to the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, joining in 1976 at the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, in Alabama.

He became a life member in 1983.

Mr Daniels’ flair for design was put to use for the organisation’s Gamma Epsilon chapter at the behest of a fraternity brother, Willie Pass.

The two branded it as the “lighthouse chapter”, with Mr Daniels drawing up its banner — which remains in use.

Mr Daniels served the fraternity for 48 years, becoming one of the organising members of the Bermuda chapter.

In 1993, the Bermuda National Trust bestowed an award on Mr Daniels and the PLP for the extensive work at Alaska Hall, including the addition of an extra storey to the 1896 building, a former lodge, which reopened to acclaim in 1992.

Mr Daniels worked closely with the late party leader L. Frederick Wade, along with the late PLP MP Reginald Burrows, making the building a Court Street landmark.

The building was renamed in honour of Mr Burrows in a 2023 ceremony.

Mr Daniels helped lead the PLP in Hamilton Parish in the days before single-seat constituencies and during United Bermuda Party dominance, when the area tilted between the two parties.

Mr Daniels grew up in the same area of Crawl Hill as Wayne Furbert, the transport minister, and was a fellow pupil at Francis Patton Primary School, who recalled him as highly academic.

In 1969, he attended Saltus Grammar School on a bursary with several other Black students, graduating in 1974.

His parents decided he would attend Tuskegee while enrolling his older sister, Doris.

Mr Daniels settled on studying architecture, which allowed him to draw and use his imagination.

He graduated with a master of architecture degree in 1980 and joined the firm Onions, Bouchard and McCulloch, later OBMI.

In 1995 he qualified to practise in the District of Columbia as an occupational and professional licensed architect.

Mr Daniels finished at OBMI as a partner, becoming a senior architect with the Bermuda Government in 2005.

In 2007, he formed The Architecture Group, turning his skills to full-time business the following year.

Mr Daniels befriended Rhita Love at Tuskegee, and they became a couple in 1982 when he attended the graduation of Sharon, his youngest sister.

They married in 1988 and had three children: Christopher, Margaret and Catherine.

Mr Daniels helped with chartering the Bermuda Alumni Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in 1985, and served as its first polemarch — the fraternity’s title for a leader, derived from ancient Greek.

He served as chairman on several committees, including scholarships, nominations, achievement awards and community outreach.

• Charles Kingsford Daniels, an architect and branch manager in the Progressive Labour Party, was born on June 23, 1957. He died in March 2024, aged 66.